Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Low zinc prices and the closure of Breakwater Resources’ (TSE) Caribou lead-zinc mine in New Brunswick have taken a heavy toll on the Vancouver company’s 1990 financial results. After announcing a $64…

Out of the news lately but still busy, the partnership of Aur Resources (TSE) and Societe Miniere Louvem (TSE) is moving fast toward the critical development stage at its Louvicourt Twp. base metal jo…

The Mt. Hundere zinc-lead-silver project of Curragh Resources (TSE) and Hillsborough Resources (TSE) in the Yukon is expected to be in full production by July of this year. Incorrect information appea…

“The best place to look for a new mine is near one,” is a tried and true exiom of the business. And by the same token, new ore deposits are frequently discovered close by known ones. Indeed the histor…

Noranda Exploration, a unit of Noranda (TSE), has moved five rigs on to the Lynne property, about one hour’s drive from this tourist town, in an attempt to delineate the deposit before spring breakup….

After completing a 5-hole drill program, Cameco has dropped its option on a gold property owned by Golden Marlin Resources (VSE) near Yellowknife, N.W.T. Cameco had the right to earn a 51% interest in…

One of the new juniors growing by leaps and bounds is Great Lakes Minerals (TSE). Listed last July, the company already has three promising copper properties in the Keweenaw Peninsula of northern Mich…

A half-metre-long intersection cut 24 grams gold per tonne (0,7 oz. per ton) in hole McV-91-3 at the Linjog prospect on the McVean Lake claim block in the Pickle Lake area of northwestern Ontario, Maj…

Financial results for Treminco Resources (TSE) for the first half of fiscal 1990 show a loss of $264,000, which is slightly less than the $265,000 loss experienced for the first six months of 1990. Th…

A 12,500-ft. drill program is scheduled to begin in late May on Westpine Metals’ (VSE) Taseko copper-gold property, 140 miles north of Vancouver, B.C. The property is reported to contain preliminary r…

Queenston and Strike Minerals have signed a formal joint venture agreement on the Robertson Twp. base metal property near Matachewan, Ont., giving Strike a 40% interest in the project. The partners ar…

Exploration and pre-development expenditures in Saskatchewan are estimated at $45 million for 1991 compared with $57 million in 1990, and $105 million in the recent peak year of 1988. While base metal…